Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-23
MATTERS.

Bald Mountain is again attracting mlr
ing mems attention.
Strangers say the Judith Basin Is tn
60 rden spN of Montana.
Glendale and Dillon ball tossers ar
bantering each other for a def.
The Northern Pacific hotel in Bozemal
has paid for itself in rents in three years.
Fred Schmalse. of Miles City. cleared
$14. 900 by a deal in real estate in Pasa
dena, Cal.
A band Of gypsies at Dillon are reapins
quite a harvest OF the filthy from the eredu
lous there.
Good teams are in steady demand al
Bozeman, says the Chronicle, with very
few for sale.
The Bozeman Chronicle records the flight
Of a white woman Mrs. kenney, to Miles
City with a colored barber.
Henry Hammond is cutting niue million
feet of lumter for the Anaconda Mining
company.-Missoula Times.
The new tariff rate per 100 on less than
carload shipments from Dillon TO Butte is
81 cents, against 3S, the old rate;
Livingston is getting to be quite a fur
market, n man recently having shipped
several hundreds pounds of fur from there.
The warrants have not yet been served
on the Crow reservation timber cutters.
The agent o~verstepped the mark in report
ing those cases.
Probate Judge Carson. of Livingston, is
kept busy issuing bounty certificates for
prairie dogs and ground squirrels killed in
the Gallatin Valley.
Polo ponies have been shipped to New
York from the old Sweetland ranch, now
owned by Morrison d Co.. III the western
part OF the Territory.
The quantity OF waste slabs from the
Big Blackfoot floating down the river to
Missoula threatens to seriously affect the
cordwood trade there.
The base ball fever has struck Glendive,
and the Times whoops it up on a prospect
that considerable sport would be brought
to town in consequence"
The Glendive Times chronicles the ar
rival OF about sixty Italians on Sunday,
and adds this layout have gone to work
on the Yellowstone Division"
A party of squaws and pappooses came
from the Cheyenne Agency at Muddy to
the Miles City Jail to visit the four bucks
languishing there in durance vile.
Butter is being shipped from St. Paul to
supply the demand in Bozeman. This is a
sad commentary on our farmers with their
cattle upon a thousand hills.-Chronicle.
Walker and Moore, the men arrested at
Dillon for hurse-theft, were released on
on Saturday, but a defect was dis
covered in it and they were Immediately
rearrested.
The Englishman Caldwell's murder has
been traced to a Blackfoot Indian, Two
Fox, assisted by Bloods from over the
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eide when arrested.
Some enthusiastic Bitter Rooters say the
ore from the Curiew and Elizabeth mines
now being shipped to Wickes is SO rich
it costs more to ship the money back
the ore over.
A wild goose killed on the Upper Trout
had a silver plate tied to it's left
wing bearing an almost illegible inscription.
it to have been placed there by
members of the Danish Arctic expedition
lnder Nordenskjold.
The Missoula Times warns people H. that
ectiOn to look out for thieves and high
The country is fast filling up with
hem, and they are as tough as can be
ound anywhere. This is one OF the evils
on railroad construction.
Probably the most economically oper-
ltu tCilcIlu 3 OllC III tic vest, OF any
there else, is that OF Dawson County, this
territory. The Sheriff has not made an
rrest since October last, has no deputies
r iailer, and does not even require a Jail.
Chronicle.
A LAND slide covered the track in the cut
t the Eastern approach Of the Bozeman
unnel for a length OF two hundred feet to
be depth OF ten feet last Saturday. an
our before the Eastbound train reached
1t is still there in spite OF hard
'Ork. ,
The Missoula County Times SAYS the I
quite to be selected by the Manitoba road
i'll be from Sun River West through Ca
OTIS pass. down the Big Blackfoot to r
~i-soula, crossing the Northern Pacific +
ere and thence following down the Mis- Z
'nla River, up the St. Regis and pe1etrat-
z the best OF the CPnr d'Alene country.